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Tropical Storm Don to reach Windward Islands tonight

Update 5 p.m.: Tropical Storm Don is moving toward the Windward Islands with 40 mph sustained winds. The center of the storm is expected to cross the islands this evening.

Don should degenerate into a trough tomorrow, but is expected to dump up to 6 inches of rain with isolated higher amounts on Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and the southern Windward Islands through Wednesday.

Earliest reasonable arrival time of tropical storm-force winds as of 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Don isn’t expected to remain a storm for long. As it heads deeper into the Caribbean, it will encounter more storm-shredding wind shear that will likely dissipate it by the end of the week.

The National Hurricane Center has identified a second area of interest, designating a wave behind Don as Invest 96L this morning.

Tropical Storm Don is being trailed by Invest 96L.

Invest 96L has a 40 percent chance of development over five days. It is located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands and is expected to experience some gradual development through mid-week.

But environmental conditions are expected to become less conducive as the system moves west-northwest at up to 15 mph.